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Bossert said he had objections to the 1-1-2 plan, which would abolish Houses in the Quad and limit those on the River to the junior and senior classes. "Right now Houses are on the border of being dorms," he added. Implementing the plan would "seriously modify" them, he said...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: CHUL Wants Housing Study To Cover More Than 1-1-2 Plan | 10/2/1975 | See Source »

...reach the middle of the road, Bentsen had to move away from his close identification with his home state's largest industry. To the surprise and chagrin of some of his supporters, he voted for a bill to abolish the depletion allowance for the major oil companies while retaining it for the independents, which do much of the exploratory drilling in the U.S. Bentsen has also called for the creation of a federal bank to guarantee loans to private industry for the development of alternative energy sources. To conserve energy, he has proposed a gasoline tax that starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANDIDATES'76: Bentsen: No Chasing of Rainbows | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...have a say in how Harvard College is administered. The committee deals with issues such as the number of freshmen that will be assigned to live at Radcliffe instead of Harvard Yard, or the number of women that will be admitted to Harvard, or whether or not to abolish the CRR. Some of the issues are more important than others, but they all affect undergraduate life...

Author: By James Lemoyne, | Title: Students Don't Govern at Harvard | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...year ahead of schedule, she called for a general election, then campaigned on the populist Hindi slogan Garibi hatao ("Abolish poverty"). The result: the New Congress Party won two-thirds of the seats in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of the Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Self-Styled Joan of Arc | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...calling for an end to the U.N. mandate in Korea under which the American troops are stationed south of the DMZ. Washington will keep the American forces in place no matter what happens at the U.N., since only the Security Council, where the U.S. has a veto, can actually abolish the command. There is speculation that the U.S. will agree to discuss the removal of its troops from under the U.N. command structure before a vote is taken in the General Assembly. In either case, the resulting propaganda gains for Pyongyang would be an unwanted sign to Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA/SPECIAL REPORT: The Long, Long Siege | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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